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click on image link to expand! Download the full-size diner placemat: HOOT DINER PLACEMAT JUNE 2025Download Author Bios Holiday Noel Campane
A short bird poem of mine has been added to the latest issue of HOOT, published earlier this year. You can print it out as a placemat and eat a bowl of soup off of it!
Contributor News: Jonathan H. Roberts published in Hoot Review
Jonathan H. Roberts just had a story published the print edition of the Hoot Review. The story is called “Eternal Angst,” and it appears in issue #25 (October 2013).
Jonathan H. Roberts’s story, “Circumstances Under Which it is Nearly Impossible to Meet a…
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Thanks go out to Kelly Meissner for the beautiful image, and to HOOT Review for having me!
A promo video from HOOT, which includes my story "Are We The Dining Dead?".
Recap: AWP 2013 Bookfair in Boston
For little magazines and their supporters, the bookfair at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, this year in Boston from March 7-10, 2013, was an exciting place to be. With over 600 exhibitors, ranging the gamut from small start-up journals like Hoot to the established stalwart publications such as Ploughshares and The Kenyon Review, one could spend three entire days connecting with those who edit, publish, and write little magazines, and see and buy the magazines for themselves. That’s exactly what many of this year’s 12,000 conference attendees did, packing their newly purchased little magazines into empty suitcases they’d brought, or shipping them home.
One unique aspect of the bookfair is that many journals bring not only copies of their journal, and often discounted subscriptions, but also a variety of ephemera to give away to conference attendees. Indiana Review distributed small stapled pamphlets previewing their forthcoming issue:
Third Coast gave away plastic kazoos at their table (perhaps a nod to their hometown, Kalamazoo, Michigan?). And the editors of Cream City Review offered bundles of back issues grouped into themes: “Queer,” “Native/Writers of Color,” and “Great Lakes.”
Of course, not all of this ephemera will be added to the Little Magazine collection (that kazoo would present some processing and cataloging difficulties!). Even so, if there was any doubt about the livelihood of little magazines, the AWP bookfair confirmed yet again that print culture is alive and well.
Wintery Postcards with HOOT!
Thank you to our friends over at HOOT for this great winter craft! You can follow them on Twitter @HOOTreview!
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The winter is the perfect time to send your favorite person a postcard while they are trapped indoors by the chilly weather. We love making and sending postcards at HOOT, and thought you might like making one too. Nothing makes someone a little warmer than receiving happy messages through the mail. Here’s what you’ll need: Card stock; a ruler; scissors; construction paper in: blue, white, black, orange, and brown; and a pen And after you get the supplies it’s as easy as pie.
Steps:
1. Use the ruler and draw an outline of a box on the cardstock that is six inches wide and four inches tall. This is going to be your postcard. After you trace the box, use the scissors to cut it out.
2. Cover one side of your postcard with the light blue construction paper. This will be your background.
3. After you arrange the setting it’s time to cut out your main character. Cut out three snowy white circles from small to medium, use your glue, and then arrange.
4. Once the snowman is settled on the page it is time to give him some character with eyes made out of buttons and a smile made out of coal. To make the buttons and coal take a thin strip of black construction paper and snip teeny pieces. You can use these small pieces to give him buttons down the front of him as well.
5. Time to give him his features!
6. He seems to be missing a nose though, right? Time to cut a small obtuse triangle in your orange construction paper for that carrot nose of his. Take your glue and give him his sniffer.
7. But there is also another thing that snowman seems to be missing. His favorite snowy companion. A book. To make a book take two piece of black construction paper and cut them in two, take a piece of white construction paper and place it in the middle. Viola! A book. Look at how handsome he is with his favorite novel. He might need something to hold the book with though; to give him his twig arms take four small strips of brown construction paper and arrange them near his middle.
8. You can always add a little message to the front of snowman’s novel if you like.
9. Once the glue has dried, flip your postcard over and draw dashes down the middle and lines to the right like in the picture. Don’t forget about where to place your stamp.
10.Mail off to anyone who might need a smile during these cold months!
Hey everyone! My story Fixed got published in Hoot Review! Go there. Read it. You won't regret it.
